Mark Judge, the high school bestie of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, is now central to two of the three sexual assault allegations against Kavanaugh. Judge was not only named by Kavanaugh's first accuser as the only other person in the room during the assault, but Kavanaugh's third accuser name-checked Judge no less than 10 times in her sworn declaration.
Most notably, the allegation made by Julie Swetnick that she and other women were the victims of "gang" or "train" rapes at parties where Judge and Kavanaugh were present lines up perfectly with the recollection of one of Judge's former girlfriends.
Elizabeth Rasor, who met Judge at Catholic University and dated him for about three years, told the New Yorker that she couldn't sit quietly by and let Judge whitewash his years at Georgetown Prep. Judge has called Dr. Christine Blasey Ford’s sexual assault claim "just absolutely nuts" and said in a statement that he "never saw Brett act in the manner Dr. Ford describes." But here’s what Rasor told the New Yorker:
Rasor stressed that “under normal circumstances, I wouldn’t reveal information that was told in confidence,” but, she said, “I can’t stand by and watch him lie.” [...] Rasor recalled that Judge had told her ashamedly of an incident that involved him and other boys taking turns having sex with a drunk woman. Rasor said that Judge seemed to regard it as fully consensual. She said that Judge did not name others involved in the incident, and she has no knowledge that Kavanaugh participated. But Rasor was disturbed by the story and noted that it undercut Judge’s protestations about the sexual innocence of Georgetown Prep.
Judge's lawyer has now issued another statement saying he "vehemently denies" the new allegations made by Swetnick.
In that case, Judge should have to deny those allegations (along with those of Dr. Blasey Ford) under oath.
What Judge continues to say is that he has "no memory" of incidents like this and does "not recall" them. That is plainly disputed by the many incidents he dwells on in his memoirs and articles. Here's a quick rundown of things he's put in writing, from the Washington Post:
- “I drank too much and did stupid things”
- “Most of the time everyone, including the girls, was drunk,”
- “the wonderful beauty of uncontrollable male passion”
- “I’ll be the first one to defend guys being guys”
- “I was ready to destroy the world,” he wrote of life in his 20s. “I didn’t disbelieve in God — I hated him. . . . I was destroying myself.”
- "I just had an instinct and desire to get into trouble, and science and psychotherapy are useless to explain it. I just liked causing trouble.”
Those are just a tiny few of the things Mark Judge recollected in his writings before he became a focus of Kavanaugh's floundering bid for confirmation to the Supreme Court.
Judge has now been named and identified in two sexual assault allegations directly related to Kavanaugh and his treatment of women. In response, Judge has fled the Beltway to hole up in a beach house three hours away to escape scrutiny.
There's nothing "fair" about allowing Judge to issue blanket denials in writing without forcing him to make those statements under oath—especially when the women making the claims have both been willing to do so under oath.
The GOP-led Senate Judiciary Committee has the power to subpoena Mark Judge to compel his testimony. They’ve simply declined to do so as they race ahead with their accelerated timeline to confirm Kavanaugh.